Usually means: Breathy, whistling sounds during breathing.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word wheezes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheezes: Merriam-Webster
  2. wheezes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wheezes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wheezes, wheezes: Wordnik
  5. wheezes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wheezes: Wiktionary
  7. wheezes: Dictionary.com
  8. wheezes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. wheezes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheezes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. wheezes: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wheeze)

verb:  To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
verb:  (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
verb:  To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
noun:  A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
noun:  An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
noun:  (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
noun:  (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
noun:  A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
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